Kitchen-cabinet



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. ROSS, OF SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA.

KITCHEN-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,654, dated November 14, 1882,

Application filed July 12, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. ROSS, a citizen, of the United States of America, residing at Santa Clara, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Provision- Safes, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to the class of devices entitled in the classification of subjects of invention' fprovisionsafes or kitchen-cabinets, and it consists of the construction and arrangement hereinafter described and shown. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of the safe or cabinet with the bin and receptacles closed. Fig. 2 is an perspective view of the safe or cabinet with the bin and receptacles open. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section, showing the pivots of the bin.

A is the case, provided with the stationary top B and the open front receptacle, 0. This receptacle is adapted to receive spiceboxes, cake-cutters, and such other articles as are used in cookery, and one part of it is provided with a wire or cleat, a, arranged to receive and hold in place a rollingpin. The entire top of the case in front of the receptacle in construction is adapted for use asa cake-board, and is provided with a boxeover, D, hinged to the top of the receptacle. The front and end walls of this cover are provided with openings b, covered with wire-gauze or other netting, for ventilation and protection from flies, forming thus a convenient temporary receptacle for cakes, pies, meats, 850., when the top is V not being used as a cake-board.

E is a bin, having a bottom of zinc or other sheet metal, and is provided with separate apartments, 0, tbrdifterentkinds offlour, meal,

or other articles, and is pivoted eccentrically on the pivots (1 within the case under the stationary top. The pivots are extended through the walls of the case and partly through'the walls of the bin, and are provided with disks d, having screw-holes for fastening them to force may be opened by tilting forward, and uclosed by returning it under the stationary top by means of an ordinary drawer pull or knob, h, on the front of the bin. The pivotholes extend only partly through the walls of the bin, so as to form a bearing for the ends of the pivots to hold the bin from rubbing against the walls of the case, the pivots being held in place by the disks screwed to the case, thus holding the bin in position to oscillate freely upon the pivots. The opening in the front of the case extends below the line of the bottom of the bin when closed, leaving the space f to allow the bin to be tilted forward to give access to its interior, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and when the bin is thus opened its lower front edge rests on the upper edge of the front casing, A, which holds firmly the end walls of the case A, and the top line of the bin, when closed, must be sufficiently below sary for the upward movement for the upper back portion of the bin in tilting it forward; and the position and construction of the top in relation to the bin may be such as toforni a stop for the tilted bin, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings; or the upper back portion of the bin may be beveled downward, leaving space for tilting the bin, and the under side of the top B may be provided with a stop for the tilted bin.

I am aware of cabinets having pivoted bins, cake-boards, various compartments, receptacles, and even writing-desks combined; but all of such cabinets are objectionable and fail to meet the common demand in this line, be cause they are too complicated and expensive. The object of my invention is to furnish a safe having the parts only which are required by every cook in making bread, pies, cakes, and other pastries, and having these parts so constructed and arranged as that they will be most readily accessible for the uses required and kept in good condition, and may be constructed and furnished at the least possible cost; and I am requisite parts only constructed, arranged, and combined as herein described and claimed.

VVhatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The kitchen-cabinet consisting of the case remain closed when so placed, and with small the stationary topB to allow the space necesnot aware of a safe or cabinet having these A, provided with the front spaoe,f, and the ots d, extended through the wells of the case to front stay, A, and having its top.B constructed and partly through the walls of the bin, subto form an unobstructed cake-board extending the entire width of the case and length of the top, the open front receptacle, 0, provided with the rolling-pin stop a, the hinged boxcover D, provided with the ventilationopenings b, and the bin E, having the rounded metallic bottom, and adjusted on the disk-pivstantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN \V. ROSS. Witnesses:

W. H. B. SANDS, THos. G. Ross. 

